On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:01:35AM -0500, Brady Hegberg wrote: > I'm looking for a more useful ps command for when you just want to find > a process to kill it. All I really need is the command and the PID so I > tried this: > > ps ahx --format=%c%p | sort -u > > But that cuts off the command after only 16 characters and it doesn't > show the path the process was run from. Any pointers? Have you tried pkill or pgrep? They might directly do what you need. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list